March 18, 2017

English domestic radio broadcasts in Hong Kong

In this travel, went to HK and neighboring
areas with my wife and son for one week, with my Eton Satellit and ER-C57WR (ex
C Crane CC Skywave).

We'd stayed at a hotel near HK central named
Kowloon (in the Tsim Sha Tsui area) and went on two day trips to Shenzhen
(Canton province, mainland China) and Macau.

As you may know, HK and Macau have been
returned to China (PRC), but you still need to pass through immigration from mainland
China.

We travelled to Shenzhen to meet my wife's
relatives who live in the part of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen built-up area.

My wife was born in Malaysia and studied in
Australia, but her both grand-parents came from Canton province, so she has a lot of
relatives in this region.

The language widely spoken in this area is
Cantonese.

It’s completely different from Mandarin, so
I can’t understand it at all.

My wife’s native language is 'Hakka', one of
the major Chinese dialects, and luckily for us, she also can speak Cantonese to
a certain extent, so we didn't mind local travel.

In Canton province, Cantonese, Hakka and
other minor local dialects are spoken.

I really agree that the southern part of
China is a really multilingual area, it might be similar to how Belgium is in
Europe.

I’m sure that several English radio
broadcasters are available in HK.

【RTHK】

Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the
public broadcasting service of HK.

It currently operates seven radio channels
and three television channels, and produces educational, entertainment, and
public affairs programs that are also broadcast on commercial television
channels.

Their Radio 3 and 6 (BBC World Service
Relay) are only in English.

And Radio 4 is Classical music and fine
arts by English and Cantonese

The features of Radio 3 are News, popular
music, information, romance, comedy, reality, sports and education programs,
which similar in genre to BBC Radio 4.

The MW frequencies are on 567kHz and 1584kHz.

As for FM, they’re on 97.9MHz, 106.8MHz, and
107.8MHz.

Radio 4’s are on 97.6MHz, 97.8MHz, 98.2MHz,
98.4MHz, 98.7MHz and 98.9MHz. (FM only)

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